Job Description

Title: Senior Software Engineer

Term: Long Term Contract

Location: Toronto, Canada (5 Days Onsite)

:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in building highly scalable solutions based on a

microservices architecture.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working with a highly skilled cross functional team to enhance our banking platform.
Notes: Software Engineer role focused on

Python and building web APIs

Responsibilities and Duties

Design and deliver high quality features and enhancements. Create technical design specifications in collaboration with other members of the engineering team. Provide estimates and actively participate in the sprint planning process. Produce highly secure solutions. Tune the performance of our distributed system to ensure they operate within our SLAs. Mentor other engineers to create good technical solutions to problems and ship code quickly to our customers.
Qualifications and Skills

Experience with cloud computing and container-based distributed systems

(Docker).

Experience working with relational databases (

preferably MySQL

) and high proficiency with SQL. Understanding of higher-level RDBMS concepts (locking and transaction model, isolation levels, deadlocks, etc.). Significant experience with at least one dynamically typed, object-oriented programming. language (

preference for Python

). Great understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture. Hands-on experience in using message brokers such as RabbitMQ.

Deep understanding of restful API development.

Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced customer centric environment. 7+ years of experience in software development. Proven experience using code repositories such as GitHub. Familiar with Unix like environments.
Job Types: Fixed term contract, Seasonal
Contract length: 12 months

Experience:

Python: 5 years (required) Microservices: 5 years (required) Docker: 5 years (required) Web API: 5 years (required) MySQL: 1 year (required)
Work Location: In person